Our Digitally Remastered Series are bigger, better and in stunning HD for the very first time! These are the original programmes which have been put through the upscale and remastering treatment with improvements to audio, colour balance, contrast and most of all - picture quality. Some of the trains featured here were never filmed in HD or in broadcast quality. Now, for the first time - you can enjoy just that!
The Beyer Garratts still working in Zimbabwe are the last remaining commercial steam operations in the world with these unique locomotives.
This film looks at all the types currently working in Zimbabwe using charter trains operations by Geoff's Trains a UK based tour company with many years of experience in Zimbabwe.
See mighty 14A, 15A and 16A locomotives in action on the lines from Bulawayo to Cement, Plumtree and to Victoria Falls.
Plus the 15A Garratts at Hwange Colliery and the 14A run by the Victoira Falls Steam Train Co.
The film includes archive footage of these locomotives in 1991 and 1996 plus maps of the lines and interviews with the staff of the Bulawayo Railway Museum.
Also included s the BCL Copper Mine 19D 4-8-2s at Selebe Phikwe in Botswana.
Produced by - Belhurst Productions
Running time - 120 minutes
DVD and Blu-ray
Re-released - July 2024
